Harper Reed: Tech, Mobile, Yo-yoing and Death Metal

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, XMPP, Hacking, Baphomet

So my name is harper. It isn’t a very common name, so I have always had luck with being pretty high ranked in the results  when a person searches for my full name “harper reed,” but when you search for my first name I am often beat out by such “cultural giants” as ben harper, harpers [...]

Campfire perl bot hack

So i was playing around with campfire and i noticed that i could easy write a bot for it. so i did. it sucks. but it shows what you could do. how i love www mechanize. and perl. check it out:
http://nata2.info/?path=code%2Fcampfire_bot_hack
Oh yea. campfire is sweet. the 37signals guys did a great job. although i am [...]

So i haven’t really been posting to my blog as i would like. I have instead been coding ruby on rails applications. it is fun. i am kinda bored. sorta. not really. i was bored. then i discovered the ajax helpers. haha. so much fun. unfortunately a site such as harperreed.org doesn’t lend itself [...]

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a500hacking forum closed

I have closed the a500hacking.com forums. Basically the forums were full of spam, nonsense, script kiddies and basically just trash. I decided to cut my losses and just remove it. I saved most of the content here and here.
I hate forums ;)
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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. I am currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for rackspace. In a previous life, I was the CTO of the awesome Threadless. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.

Be sure and take a gander at my photos.

If you want to contact me click here to start a chat.